Pony Club Love
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Pony Club Member Spotlight: Ava
Meet Ava! Ava is a D-1 certified member with Rose City Pony Club in the Oregon region. She rides Calgary, and together they do dressage, and trail rides.
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Annual Fund Inspiration: Elkridge-Harford Hunt Pony Club
Meet some of the donors who support the USPC Annual Fund, and find out why they give.
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Midwest Region Youth Board Spotlight
Written by the National Youth Board About: The Midwest Region Youth board was established in 2018 with the initial goal of creating, organizing, and putting on its first ever D camp. Since its hard work in successfully running that first D camp the MWR YB has gone on to be the masterminds behind D camp and C camp. The hardworking members of the MWR YB also assist as horse management judges for MWR’s Padawan Rally (a rally designed to be fun and rewarding for new members and/or green mounts). Starting in 2020 and continuing into 2021 members have organized fundraising efforts in order to promote and maintain membership in the…
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Pony Club Member Spotlight: Laura
Meet Laura! Laura is a D-2 certified member with Western Reserve Pony Club. She and her appaloosa gelding, Walter, compete in eventing, dressage, and show jumping! Laura is a proud USPC member, and says that Pony Club has shaped her into the great rider and horse woman she is today.
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Pony Club Member Spotlight: Ella
Meet Ella! Ella is a C-1 certified member of the Sierra Gold Pony Club in the Sierra Pacific region. Her and her Irish Sport Horse, Zelda compete in eventing, dressage and show jumping. Together they are working towards a C-2 certification!
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NYB: Gaining Opportunities through Pony Club
After living and riding in the Midwest for 22 years, teaching riding lessons at the base of a mountain was not something I experienced every day. Nevertheless, that’s where I found myself in the Summer of 2019. A Pony Club member from my home club, Sharlee Lowe, had been teaching at a Pony Club summer camp in Washington for the past few years—originally through the Visiting Instructor Program—and the club had grown so much in size that it needed another instructor. After a recommendation from Sharlee and some emails with the organizer, I was on a plane to Seattle with my helmet and paddock boots in tow.
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Pony Club Member Spotlight: Becca
Meet Becca! Becca is an HB/C certified member of Five Valleys Pony Club in the Big Sky region. She is also a USPC life member, serves as the co-RIC of Big Sky region, and teaches lessons with her Pony Club, all while studying in Physician Assistants school!
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NYB: Finding the Silver Lining
The first time I had taken a national certification I was 12 years old. It rained the entire weekend and made the arenas a sloppy mess. There were 13 C3 candidates and none of them passed. At that age I had never really experienced this type of failure.
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Pony Club Member Spotlight: Mandolin
Meet Mandolin! Mandolin is a B certified member with Roanoke Valley Pony Club in the Old Dominion Region. She leases an OTTB named Sasha, and together they event at the prelim level!
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NYB: No Horse Community, No Problem
Chattanooga has a notoriously very small horse community. In fact some would consider it almost non-existent, but it all depends on who you ask. If you ask an eventer, they would tell you there's no place to school XC. A dressage rider may say there’s nowhere to practice a freestyle, but if you ask a member of CPC they would probably say something much different.
